Saturday, June 23, 2012

Widdershins - Time to visit Japan

After a long but pleasant flight (Japanese airlines -in this case ANA- are the best!) we arrived in Narita and were lucky to immediately get a bus to Tsukuba. A friend of P is working on his Ph.D. thesis in Tsukuba (つくば) and so we went there for a couple of days.

Waiting for the bus:


About half an hour later we could check in at our hotel, the Okura Frontier Hotel. Not a beauty to look at, but very convenient. Very close to bus, underground, and shopping malls. It also has a nice bakery shop on the lower floor :)


The backside is not much better :(


When P's friend Ma arrived on his bike he had to park it properly in a bicycle parking lot. You even have to pay for it like in a car park :( 


Since it was already late we went to one of the shopping malls and had some food at one of the restaurants in the food court. It was a 'Spanish' restaurant (of which I don't remember the name anymore) and I thought it to be awesome. We had fried rice, vegetables, patatas bravas and these super delicious rolls with sweet-and-sour sauce:


A have a closer look at the cherry-tomato rose! Isn't that beautiful?


Tomorrow we are looking at really fast things at the KEK and some Japanese stew!






2 comments:

  1. Wow! I'd love to visit Japan, you are so lucky! And I am envious.

    Is that a tree sculpture? It is interesting but I see your point about the building. Love the tomato rose. I used to have to cut radish flowers in one of my first jobs. Enjoy your trip and look forward to more photos from you.

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    1. Yes, it's a tree sculpture including the papyrus plants :)

      Maybe one day I'm going to learn to make beautiful food art, too. To start with radishes might not be a bad idea :)

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